The interesting thing about the heavy drop during Suez was that to do it they had to raid the 'museum' at the AATDC Old Sarum for the Jeep crash pans. The UK did have the Medium Stressed Platform (MSP) available but the only UK aircraft capable of dropping it, the Beverley, hadn't then been cleared to drop it. The MSP could have been used, as all the training the UK had done with it had seen it dropped from USAF C-119 and we all know how much the septics helped at Suez
